I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.

Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature.

The wrongdoer is often the person who left something undone, rather than the person who has done something

Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity.